Once a week through the end of the 2014 mayoral election, we’ll introduce you to an obscure person who is vying to be Toronto’s chief magistrate. This is an edited version of the interview.

There have been cheerier mayoral campaigns. Candidate Wally Schwauss, a resident of North York, believes most of us have been “marked for destruction.”

Schwauss, 62, says he is a former railway conductor. He decided to run for mayor because he is unhappy the TTC decided to take old subway trains out of service when the new Toronto Rockets arrived. What really gets him going, though, is the U.S. military’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program(external - login to view), better known as HAARP.